Chronic Pain, Fatigue, and Illness

Dry Needling

Dry Needling for Specialized Physical Therapy | PARR PT

PARR PT offers dry needling techniques as a cutting-edge treatment aimed at relieving pain, improving mobility, and promoting healing. Dry needling involves inserting a very thin needle into a specific “trigger point” within muscles, tendons, or ligaments. These trigger points, often referred to as muscle knots, can contribute to pain, stiffness, and discomfort. By targeting these areas, dry needling helps to relieve tension, improve blood flow, and promote the body’s natural healing process.

Dry needling is a technique that differs from the well-known treatment acupuncture. Dry needling focuses on specific musculoskeletal issues, while acupuncture targets energy pathways in the body. All of our licensed physical therapists are certified in this technique and may use dry needling as part of the comprehensive treatment plan tailored to your individual needs. Dry needling offers a variety of benefits for individuals, including:

  • Pain Relief: Effective for reducing chronic pain, acute pain, muscle soreness, and discomfort from injuries.
  • Improved Range of Motion: Helps restore flexibility and movement in stiff or tight muscles to reduce the risk of injury.
  • Increased Blood Flow: Stimulates circulation to promote healing and reduce inflammation.
  • Faster Recovery: Accelerates tissue repair and recovery after injury or overuse.
  • Reduced Muscle Tension: Eases tightness and discomfort associated with muscle knots.

What conditions can dry needling help with? 

If you’re suffering from any of these conditions or others, the combination of dry needling and one of our programs may be the solution to help you feel better and eliminate your pain.

Chronic Pain, Chronic Fatigue, and Chronic Illness

Myokinesthetics for Specialized Physical Therapy | MYK at PARR PTHave you been to multiple clinicians with minimal results to help relieve chronic pain, chronic fatigue, or chronic illness? Any injury whether chronic, acute, or sport related, results from multiple system dysfunction. PARR PT specializes in finding the root causes of the pain, and weakness’ that limits the ability to enjoy life’s activities. Through our specialized assessments specific to our “3-Systems” approach, we can effectivity target these dysfunctions.

Although you’ll probably need a series of visits, understanding that developing a foundation is key to success for optimal recovery. What sets us apart is the implementation our ”Foundational Program” based off over 15 years experience.  Our medical graded exercise programs specifically target faulty movement patterns that result in added stress to the body. As a result, this will improve vital function related to breathing, vision, and digestive functioning.

PARR PT uses hands on manual therapy that addresses posture and nerve balancing through Myokinesthetics. Other techniques include improving muscle length and mobility through myofascial release, visceral manipulation and muscle energy techniques. Also, we offer micro-current point stimulation therapy to reduce scar adhesions, chronic pain, and improve organ function.

The focus of each program involves calming the “fight-or flight” response to allow for more fluid movement without compensation. If you don’t move right, you don’t feel right. If you don’t feel right, you don’t heal right. Whether it’s to maximize athletic performance or to improve day to day activities, PARR PT has you covered.

Scar Pain & Scar Tissue Release

Reduce Chronic Pain with Scar-Tissue ReleaseScar pain may vary from intense pain or limited mobility, specialized physical therapy can provide you with scar-pain relief. With our manual therapy treatments, scar tissue can be released reducing pain and increasing range of motion. Scars commonly occur after a form of trauma from post-pregnancy to surgical repairs of ligaments or bones. MPS Scar Release therapy uses principles of acupuncture points to break up the adhesions to the entire length of scars.

We all accumulate scars throughout our lives, and they impact our bodies in many negative ways. A simple scar from a childhood accident to can have a lifelong effect both physically and mentally. Scar tissue has the potential to spread in any direction including internally throughout the body. Therefore, it can restrict movement or function anywhere in the body from a joint to an organ. Scars effects also include:

  • Chronic pain and Nerve pain
  • Cause autonomic dysfunction producing stress on the heart and nerves
  • Reduction in muscle and organ performance
  • Suppress female hormone levels

Benefits of Scar Release Therapy Include:

  1. Increased flow of energy
  2. Improved blood circulation
  3. More efficient lymph drainage
  4. Improved motion and mobility

The duration of treatment will depend on the amount of scar sites each person has. Whether from injury or surgery, scar tissue can always been significantly improved with MPS Scar/Adhesion Release Therapy. In general, MPS treatment is completely painless. You will see immediate visible changes in the appearance and reduction in the tightness at the scar site.

Scar tissue release therapy is extraordinarily simple to learn and easy to apply. It yields powerful results that can prevent a lifetime of compensation, complications, and pain.

TMJ Dysfunction

tmjdysfunction-chronicpain-parrpt-camilleDid you know that TMJ dysfunction can be a result of restrictions in other parts of the body? Research has shown that TMJ dysfunction can originate from your neck, abdomen, and even your palate. At PARR PT, we have seen hundreds of patients with this exact condition. Our trained physical therapists use a series of specialized therapy techniques that include Neural Manipulation, Myofascial techniques, dry needling, and Myokinesthetics to address TMJ-related issues. Patients have the opportunity to utilize our dry needling treatments to enhance the speed of recovery in order to address fascial “trigger points” around the affected area.

Each individual is taken through a thorough assessment to identify the root cause of dysfunction. The formal evaluation will identify muscle imbalances, joint misalignments, and poor posture contributing to the dysfunction. Our treatments focus on addressing the body as a whole while also developing a plan to address TMJ-related symptoms. PARR PT provides personalized exercise programs that focus on improving jaw mobility, relieving pain, and restoring proper function.

Whether you’re experiencing jaw pain, headaches/migraines, or difficulty chewing, our goal is to provide lasting relief and help you regain your quality of life. Let us guide you on your path to recovery with personalized, effective treatment options for TMJ dysfunction.